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- From: palmer@pcatsc.UUCP (Doug Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Summary: Bigamy in Redmond?
- Keywords: FTC, antitrust, predatory, Microsoft
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.135714.6814@pcatsc.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 13:57:14 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.010935.2947@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec29.135034.6025@pcatsc.UUCP> <1992Dec29.235026.16339@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.235026.16339@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >
- >Surely you would agree that the agreements I make between myself and
- >my girlfriend are the business of only me and her. Actually, the agreements
- >I'll make between me and my future wife will be downright monopolistic.
- >*sigh* Yes, this does mean that thousands of other women will be "hurt"
- >because their hopes of sleeping with me will be forever dashed.
- >But my wife will have a "trust" in me that no "antitrust" legislation
- >could erase.
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- And do you plan on acquiring many wives, as Microsoft has done? Or do you
- plan on allowing your wives to acquire other husbands? It's a *free*
- market, but corporations are not free to exercise predatory pricing and
- pursue predatory covenants at the expense of the competition.
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